Dutch: Biography of a LanguageMore than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles. Roland Willemyns here offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the Dutch language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects. |
Contents
1 Who Speaks Dutch and Where? | 3 |
Its Ancestors and Contemporaries | 26 |
Language and Literature | 48 |
4 Early New Dutch 15001800 | 78 |
The Nineteenth Century | 110 |
The Age of the Standard Language | 143 |
7 Colonial Dutch | 181 |
8 Afrikaans | 215 |
9 Progress or Decay? The Future Development of Dutch | 234 |
10 Main Sources and Further Reading | 253 |
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